Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. I also do not own the song, "God Help The Outcasts" from Hunchback of Notre Dame. I only own the idea of the mash up.

Author's Note: This chapter takes place during Deathly Hallows, after the wedding, but before the Trio headed to the Ministry and before Ginny, Neville, and Luna head back to school.

God Help The Outcasts

Ginny snuck a look at her mum. Molly was in the kitchen, cooking. She had been cooking a lot lately, more than usual, but that was how Molly coped with everything that was going on. Ginny knew that both of her parents were stressed out because of the way things had turned out. Harry, Ron, and Hermione had disappeared from the wedding before the Death Eaters could get them. Voldemort had taken over and new laws were in place. Ginny already had all of her school supplies, but that seemed to only add more stress to her parents.

Ginny mentally prepared herself. She was expecting her mum to tell her no when she asked if she could go into town. Due to the increase in attacks, Ginny hadn't been allowed to step out of the house without someone with her. She hesitated to ask to go into town alone, mostly because it was a muggle town and the chance of an attack there was much higher. Ginny had prepared many arguments for why she should be allowed to go, but she still hoped she wouldn't have to use them.

"Mum?" Ginny asked, tentatively entering the kitchen. She figured it was best to not do this when Molly had a knife in her hand. "Mum, can I please go into town for a little bit?"

"Why?" Molly said, wiping her hands off on a towel and turning to face her only daughter. "You have everything you need, don't you?"

"Yes, but there's something I want to do in town before I leave for school. It's something that I can't do at Hogsmede." Ginny said. Molly simply nodded.

"I can call the twins and ask if they'll take you during lunch." Molly said.

"Mum, I want to do this alone. I need to." Ginny said, almost pleading. "Please?"

Molly studied Ginny's face for a moment. "It's that important to you that you go alone? You're underage, after all, and headed for a muggle town. You won't be able to use magic to defend yourself if there's an attack."

"I know, Mum, but I want to take the risk. It's not like I'm trying to skip out on going to school or anything." The previous day they had heard about the consequences of any student that tried to skip out on attending Hogwarts from a Ministry official that had come to the house to check on Ron's alibi for not being able to attend Hogwarts. It was lucky that Ron had come up with a plan to cement the reason why he wasn't there.

"You can go. But make it quick. I want you back by lunch." Molly said, turning around to stir whatever she was making.

Ginny stared at her mum in shock. She hadn't expected it to be this easy. "Are you serious, Mum?"

"Do you have an objection? You don't have to go, you know." Molly's tone was sharp, one that she often used with the twins.

"Thank you, Mum." Ginny quickly said, giving her mum a quick hug. "I promise to be back as soon as possible."

"See that you are." Molly called out as Ginny left.

Ginny walked a quickly as she possibly could to town. She remembered how, when she had been younger, some of her older brothers used to talk about going into town and how different it was from the magical towns. It was amazing how much things had changed since then. Bill was gone on his honeymoon with Fleur Delacour. Charlie was back in Romania on the dragon reservation. Percy was now a Ministry-loving family-traitor that had left two years ago. Fred and George had achieved their goal of getting a joke shop and were extremely successful. And Ron was gone, on the run with Hermione and Harry.

Ginny paused for a moment. Hermione's name had appeared in the Daily Prophet on the list of Muggles that had failed to turn themselves in. And Harry…Ginny stopped her thoughts. It hurt too much to think of what Harry might be doing right now. She knew that for the moment, the three of them were safe, which was all that mattered. But the purpose of this trip to town might help with that.

Ginny entered the town and immediately headed to where the town church was located. She hadn't been there before, but Hermione had explained what muggle churches were for and Ginny was hoping to ask this God person for help for everyone that was affected by the new regime. Ginny knew that there were going to be some missing faces at school, besides the trio. Her good friend Colin Creevy and his brother, Dennis, would not be returning to Hogwarts.

The one thing that worried Ginny was that this God might not want to help her or the others. Hermione had explained to her that it was believed that witches and wizards were evil and went against religion and were not accepted by God. Ginny remembered reading about the witch-hunts. But it couldn't hurt to try, right?

"Do you think that it's okay to go and ask Him to help protect all of us?" Ginny had asked Hermione when they were talking about God.

"It should be." Hermione had answered. "After all, despite what some people think, others believe that regardless of what you believe or who you are, God still looks out for you."

Ginny's thoughts were brought out of the past as she found the church. As Ginny entered the church, she was amazed at the beauty of it. The windows were unbelievable. Ginny was almost certain that regardless of the ability to do magic, there were no windows as amazing in the Wizarding World. The colors were almost unrealistic as they shone in the sunlight. There were people praying beneath the windows, but Ginny searched for something a bit more private.

She found a small alcove with a single statue in it. The statue was a woman holding a baby. It only took a moment, but Hermione's voice came flooding into Ginny's head as she tried to remember who these two were.

"If you're looking to pray to someone for help for everyone, you might want to try praying to a statue of Mary. She carried His son, Jesus. If I recall correctly, she could have been stoned by her husband, Joseph, for carrying another's child. If anyone would understand what it's like to be on the outside of society, it would be her."

Ginny almost laughed as she realized that, once again, Hermione was much smarter than many of the other people Ginny knew. Hermione had given her the answer for what to do without even knowing that Ginny would need it. Ginny brushed her red hair out of her face and looked up into the face of the Mary statue, her brown eyes filled with a simple plea that she wasn't quite sure how to phrase. Words began to tumble out of her mouth before she could stop them.

"I don't know if You can hear me

Or if You're even there.

I don't know if you would listen,

To a witch's prayer." Ginny had to admit that, regardless of what Hermione had claimed, she wasn't sure that this God would listen to her because she was a witch.

"Yes, I know I'm full of magic.

I shouldn't speak to you.

Still I see Your face and wonder

Were You full of magic, too?" The question emerged from Ginny's mouth before she could stop it. It was something that she was curious about. After all, how had He created all of these amazing miracles without having some kind of magic to help Him?

Ginny began her prayer. "God help the outcasts

Hungry from birth

Show them the mercy

They don't find on Earth." This prayer was supposed to be for everyone, but it was turning more into asking for help for those who couldn't help themselves because of the new regime.

"God, help my people

We look to You still." Ginny wasn't sure if that was true, but she knew that some of them really did, especially the muggle-borns and they were the ones that needed His help the most at the moment.

"God help the outcasts,

Or nobody will." That was another lesson that Ginny had learned over the years. After all, no one, not even her brothers, had noticed when she was being possessed by Tom Riddle's diary during her first year. She had never really thought of her relationship with them before that, but being the youngest and the only girl made her realize how much of an outcast she was within her own family. Add to that that her best friends were Luna "Loony" Lovegood and Neville Longbottom, and she had a permanent position as one of the school outcasts that no one paid much attention to.

As Ginny walked more around the church, she heard what some of the other attendees were praying for.

"I ask for wealth." One man, who already seemed to be better off than her own family, asked.

"I ask for fame." Another man asked. Ginny almost snorted. Harry hated his fame and would trade it in an instant.

"I ask for glory to shine on my name." Several people asked at once. Ginny couldn't believe that these people just expected this to somehow come to them. People in her world were fighting for their lives, and if glory came to them, it wasn't because they wanted it to.

"I ask for love." A woman asked. Ginny stopped and turned. She was trying not to be selfish, but to hear a woman ask for something that she wanted as well…but Ginny had a love. She just needed him to return safely. And she was already praying for the safety of everyone. "I can possess." Several others seemed to join in on asking for love.

"I ask for God and His angels to bless me." Almost every voice in the church rose together in that single prayer.

Ginny slumped slightly. She was praying for the well-being of those that she cared about and didn't know, and these Muggles were praying for themselves. From what Hermione had told her, Ginny assumed that people came to church to devoid themselves of such selfishness. Ginny stopped listening to the other prayers and returned to her own.

"I ask for nothing.

I can get by.

But I know so many

Less lucky than I." Ginny again thought of how many families were already torn apart by the war and knew that regardless of everything else, she at least would still have hers during this time. Harry and Hermione were off on their own without their families.

"Please help my people

The poor and down trod." Ginny knew that most of the families that would be affected weren't as poor as hers, but the war and new regime would take its toll on everyone. Tonks and Lupin were already feeling it and they had only recently gotten married. Ginny knew that Lupin felt that he shouldn't have run and Tonks had already told Ginny about how Lupin had disappeared after wedding. Ginny hoped that he would return soon. After all, Tonks was pregnant and their child needed his father.

"I thought we all were

The children of God." Ginny smiled softly, thinking about Hermione. Hermione had said that God looked out for everyone, after all.

"God help the outcasts.

Children of God." Ginny held her last note for a while as she looked up into the stained glass windows. She didn't know if any of her prayers would be answered, but she could only hope that someone out there was watching out for them. Especially since they would need it at Hogwarts. Ginny wasn't going to just stand back and let the Death Eaters take over the school. She had already contacted Luna and Neville and asked if they wanted to restart Dumbledore's Army. Ginny wanted to do whatever she could to protect the younger students.

Ginny stared at the window for a while, trying to figure out if it would tell her that help was on the way. After deciding that she would just have to wait for the answers at school, she left. Ginny slowly walked home, taking in everything about the muggle town since she had no idea what it would look like the next time she saw it, if there was a next time. And if there was one, she hoped that her entire family, including Harry, Hermione, Tonks, Lupin, Luna, and Neville, would be there with her. After all, if her prayers were answered, everyone would return to her safely.

Thanks for reading and please review. If you happen to come up with an idea that you would like to see, please let me know. I would like to keep this as canon as possible (as possible as it can be with Disney songs). If you do have an idea, please let me know the movie the song is from (I want to say that I've seen every Disney movie, but I can't and I would like to capture the song's emotion correctly) and what characters and scene or time period you would like it be for. If you have a non-Disney song, you can suggest it, but it will not be in this fanfic. It might end up as a one-shot, so please feel free to give me any idea!